Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-02
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Wool Men without Exception Agree
That Wo0l Securing Works Would
Make the Fort Wool Market.
Eeavy Cattle Shipments for Red Rock, In
dian Terrttory-The Stock Yards
ProjeCt-GeneralE News.

There is a lull in cattle shipments, ow,
mo 10 a lack Of stock cars west, but sew
raj hundred emptys went out last night.
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4 GAZETTE man heard d well known
Iswver say yesterday: 81 lave $3.50
will nut into that wool securing project"
There are 10, 900 head OF cattle along
the Texas and Pacific that will be moved
rs soon as possible TO Red Rock, Indian
Territory.
CatIemen who are IN Fort Worth say
inst stockmen all over the west and in
Inc Panhandle are anxious for union
stock Yards to be established at Fort
Worth.
The Com3nche Cher says: The Fort
Worth GAZETTE mas struck a chord that
will meet q hearty response from the
st0ckmen of the west and northwest.
The railroad center of North Texas should
have ample stock yards.
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The UvaIde News says that buyers, as
usual, are trying to gobble wool at less
t1an II Is worth, and report prices on
sales Of inferior wool only, trying to ere
ate the impression thai prices are lower
than they really are. They keep exceed
ipgly mum on transactions in good clips
Wool growers Will doubtless hold q stiff
upper lip and mix thugs with buyers Gs
much IS possible.
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A. G. Brooks, one of the best known
dealers in wool in Fort Worth, was met
yesterday and asked what he thought of
establishing wool securing works at Fort
Worth al will be lust the thing and
Will be 8 success. Artesian wster is lust
the thing for l have tried it. TIE plant
viii cost from $4,000 TO $4,000, accord
ing TO capacity desired. A piece of land
near ne river where artesisn water can
be obtained will do for the plant. If
wool securing works are established here
il will make Fort Worth a wool market"
The Niles City Stock Growers Journal
aas the following about Montana cattle:
az Lewis, Meadenhall'S foreman, re
ports that along theiTsCedsr and Custer
creek ranges they have had no rain-the
grass is growing well, however, but the
cattle are picking up slowly, owing prin
Cipally to very weak condition they were
in after winter.
Pierre WibauX WSs in the city on bust
ness on Wednesday and Thursday, and
made g very pleasant cali at the Stock
Growers office. He complains that on
Little Missouri and Beaver Greek they
have had but one rain and that soon after
the stock meeting; winds have prevailed
ami Inc grass is very poor and cattle are
in poor condition; those that were on
the reservation are doing better than
others. Cattle have had no grass upon
which TO TecupeTate from the strain of
winter, aud are consequently in very poor
shape.
Jack Long is in the city, having Just
come down from the Belle Fourche Sun
&snce country, and reports that the win
ter was not so severe in that section, and
that Powderville cattle that drifted up
there found good feed and have come out
in good condition.
The Cattle Grower Gel Paso) says: A
gentleman from Morgan, Bosque county,
says wool is coming in slow, and but lit
lie has been sold. Most Of it is of six
months growth, but of fine quality.
Grass is Furnishing luXuriantly and cattle
are fat. There is a slight demand for
one and two year old steers at So and 50
respectively. AS the country is greatly
OyeTstocked, owners will have to sell for
whatever they can get, or 60 west.
The CattlegroweF and Flockmaster has
the following: Last week we referred
to the fact that the range country was
getting dangerously limited, and that the
supply of beef would be limited and with
rhis OF course would come an increase Of
prices; we quote the following which we
ind in one OF our exchanges which is
directly in point:
Beef is rising" said a well known
Cattlemsn, "because the demand for it is
and the area of the cattle
range is being steadily enCroached upon
by agricultural industry each year.
eats beef in this
and the consumption
increases in proportion to population.
II we assume that the population of the
United Stated has increased 100000
since the census Of 1880 was taken, which
is probably about the case the consump-
ton of beef is not less than Is per cent.
larger than it was that year. Meanwhile
the cattlemen are being crowded out of
one range after another. Plenty of peo
pie can remember when Abilene was the
center of the cattle trade of Texas, Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. Now the soil of
Kansas is being cultivated nearly up TO
the Colorado border